Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Aug 2019
Augmented renal clearance in critically ill trauma patients: A pathophysiologic approach using renal vascular index.
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between creatinine clearance (ClCr), cardiac index (CI) and renal vascular index (RVI) in order to assess the potential mechanisms driving ARC in critically ill trauma patient. The secondary objective was to assess the performance of RVI for prediction of ARC. ⋯ Ultrasonic evaluation of CI and RVI did not allow approaching the haemodynamic mechanisms responsible for ARC in patients. RVI was inaccurate and not better than clinical score for predicting ARC.